Mitt Romney promises war with Iran if he gets elected

Accusing President Barack Obama of naivete on Iran, Republican presidential challenger Mitt Romney promised Thursday that if elected president he
would "prepare for war" with the Islamic republic.

In a commentary published in the Wall Street Journal, Romney said he would back up US diplomacy "with a very real and very credible military
option," deploying carrier battle groups to the Gulf and boosting military aid to Israel.

"'Si vis pacem, para bellum.' That is a Latin phrase, but the ayatollahs will have no trouble understanding its meaning from a Romney
administration: If you want peace, prepare for war," he said.

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This is just outrageous, a candidate for presidency shouldn't promote murder. Why would someone in such a position even consider using propaganda
like this. Do people really fall for this kind of garbage?

Nothing new here, honestly. Other than Paul, I believe the rest of the republican candidates are all hawks.

You might have to dig to be able to quibble over their respective level of hawkishness, but there is no real shortage to the sabre-rattling with most
of this crew. Ignorant, unnecessary (except, perhaps, to win the nomination? Hopefully not the presidency, certainly...), and full of unintended
consequences.

I thought Romney would be fairly benign and I wasn't too concerned about a GOP win... But that was before I heard this. This is frightening. I have
always hoped Paul got the nomination, but now, more than ever!

War is good, no? Cold blooded preemptive strikes on rogue nations! Killing insurgents, spending billions more when we have starving civilians here,
so we're cutting more Winter fuel assistance and raising taxes & utility costs so we can make more bombs and bullets, to kill more people!

Romney is a calculating politician playing the latest headlines to his advantage,pandering to the military/industrial complex and the politically
powerful Israeli lobby in D.C.

Just another status quo talking head whose convictions and policies change to enhance his chances.

There's only one candidate who has been rock solid in his convictions and voting record who is getting my vote and I believe there are many who
agree Ron Paul is America's greatest hope for recovery from the mis-management of characters like Mitt Romney.

I think that the OP is s-t-r-e-t-c-h-i-n-g Romney's position. In the words of former Secretary of War (now Defense) Elihu Root, whose words now are
on the entrance to the Army War College at Carlisle Barracks, PA.; "Not to promote war but to preserve the peace...." is his frame of reference on
Iran.

It's so transparent all the candidates are in the pockets of the military industrial complex, and the media say "puppet number 3 is the front
runner" , even though Ron Paul has done the best in the debates and the polls.
The media bias is so transparent too, that it backfires and people will wonder what is going in, so Ron Paul get more voters.
One day America will be free again.

This doesn't make any sense. Obama was elected by the populace on the basis that he would get us out of the war. While it is commonly known that the
President in office during a bad recession never gets re-elected, this is not an excuse for sabre-rattling by the Republicans.

As a veteran, I think there is ample evidence that (1) Iran is likely peaceful and (2) the armed forces are tired of the war overseas.

Let's not forget that Iran is not attacking the US, nor is it attacking Israel.

Let's be careful about whom we believe in the next months. I don't want to wake up to news that the US entered another expensive war, which will
likely last at least 10 years.

PTW - Peace Through War - seems to be a new battle cry for the US to justify first strike. In the 60s we would not have been caught dead doing first
strike.

OMG! It's almost like everything is just leading towards Ron Paul being the only viable candidate...

Even though the elections are a year away, it's crazy to think that Mitt would shoot himself in the foot this early, for I truly think that comment
will be his demise. His thought process is still stuck in the Bush Brain Washed Era, and the average American is becoming fed up with it.

I'm actually quite amazed that he would say something like this, it kinda blows my mind.

What kind of politcal campaign tactics is this man being advised on? Promising war, 1 year before the elections?

This isn't even worth breaking down, rather more of a relief, truly... And to think, I at one time said that I wouldn't mind if it was Ron
Paul(pres.) and Mitt Romney(vice.), well that went right out the _

Romney is a nut-case, hopefully this is just another one of his change in positions and hes not being serious.

I can't imagine the civil backlash if the U.S nudges its head in to another major conflict, and i believe that Iran will be a much larger undertaking
then Iraq. All the candidates are looking pretty crazy, except Paul ofcourse, but every candidate makes promises, just look at what Obama said then
and what he's ACTUALLY done.

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